Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenny Lewis

My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.

Thomas Perry

I was very impressed with the paintings. The subject matter that she uses is very clear and her style of painting that I saw was something that really appealed to me.

Gary DeGraide

It felt a little awkward at first but it really wasn't relevant because we appealed to two different markets. He was geared toward an older and I a younger generation of listeners. It's like vanilla and chocolate, they're both equally good it just depends what you're in the mood for.

Graeme Le Saux

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

Q-Tip

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

Ashley Bell

Growing up, I always wanted to always be something new. I thought if I was an actress, I would have a chance at doing it all. What's incredible about this profession is every role you play; you learn a different skill set. That really appealed to me.

Frank Pavone

I have appealed to Michael to sit down and dialog about this, to work toward reconciliation, ... I've heard nothing from him.

Douglas Scott

I fell in love with dance. It combines the artistry with discipline and the repetition that always appealed to the part of me that craves structure. It was a perfect match for what I wanted to be.

Woody Johnson

He's got a strong pedigree. He's been a major contributor to a very successful organization. The most important thing is he demonstrated to us a passion for football, a passion for teaching. He knows something about the culture of football that appealed to us.

George Carlin

Regarding the Boy Scouts, I'm very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook

Bill Selvey

Our own boy Cleveland pitched well, but he pitched a little better.

Christine Brennan

Paula Creamer is Title IX exploding on the golf course. This law told girls it was okay to play sports, to be tough, to play like the boys and still look like a girl. If Billie Jean King had had a master plan of what women's sports would look like in 2006, it would be Paula: Play all these sports, love them all and then pick one that, by the way, can make you a millionaire a few months after graduating from high school.

Bryan Robson

Paul Robinson's been terrific, he's just signed a new contract as well so he's on a high and he's kept all the boys on a high because of getting that goal,

Heather Mills

People in every other country in the world should now boycott Chinese goods.

Laura McDowell

Surf and skateboarding - all these looks are influencing boys fashion.

Frank Wolfe

Starvation is that government's weapon of choice liberally spiced with high-altitude bombing, mass murder and even selling Sudanese boys and girls as slaves,

Debbie Johnson

Some of the boys there are getting paid to help with clean-up efforts, ... Anthony (the older son) doesn't want to leave, but James is supposed to start his senior year of high school, so we want to get everyone together and get them up here.

Richard Griffiths

Some of the boys have been growing things just for this show for the last six to nine months, and it's been a complete waste of time.

Mark Dahm

Recipes are like a wizard that provides quick buttons for certain complex Photoshop actions. It tells you the step-by-step commands in Photoshop and gives you a one-click button to perform the action.

Shira Goodman

Organizing an office can be overwhelming -- this spot uses humor to illustrate how Staples can be your Easy Button for creating order out of chaos.

F. Schumacher

I was pushing to the maximum to try and close on Jenson Button and pass him.

Terry Francona

I think he felt like somebody might have pushed his buttons a little bit. I try to speak in generalities, because I don't want to ever communicate through the media. I think he felt like maybe I did that a little bit. I certainly don't ever want to do that.

F. Schumacher

I think Jensen Button is a major rival this year

Kathy Baker

There are so many shows I could name that are incredible and worthy for children to sit and watch, ... There's an on-off button on the television set and people (have) got to use it.

David Cunningham

If organizations haven't done their due diligence to this point, you're going to see the red button hit, and when you're in a panic mode you have a tendency to grab at anything, ... We'll be seeing a lot of that.

Author unknown

Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected!

John Walden

I think the one distinction is that the store experience at traditional retailers is designed around how consumers react when they walk in the store, ... How do you select a product off the shelf? The same thought has to work for consumers on the Internet. They can click one button and be gone.

Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Steve James

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, 'Hoop Dreams,' which was essential to its success. Roger remained a great supporter of my work throughout my career, and I'll never forget him tweeting about 'The Interrupters' right before its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.

Karen Anderson

Krista has big dreams. She's very driven. She wants to be all that she can be.

Constance Zimmer

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

Andrew Wilson

It felt good. This was a must-win for us in order to keep our tournament dreams alive.

Maher Arar

I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams.

Kaley Cuoco

I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

Katori Hall

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

Rachel Platten

I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Betsey Johnson

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

Christian Williams

I will say that I think it is probably better that people aren't into fantasy sports where I work. It would become a major distraction.

Ronald Harwood

He wanted to make a picture for children. So I read a lot of stuff and he read a lot of stuff. . . . But I don't like all those fantasy books, I'm not good at 'Lord of the Rings' and the 'Harry Potters.' . . . It's not my world. I like things to do with reality and the world we live in -- or lived in.

Meghan Ory

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

Robin Hobb

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

Matt Hasselbeck

His numbers are incredible. If I had a fantasy team, he would probably be my first pick at the quarterback position. He is a huge guy, physically intimidating.

David Goyer

Historically when people have been scared and people have been nervous, there's been an uptick in science-fiction, fantasy and horror. It happened in the '50s with the Red Scare and the Space Race and all of that. And there usually is a correlation between (events and fiction that follows). You're telling allegorical tales and you're shining a light back on society, and it's a way to talk about what's going on but from a sideways angle.

David Goyer

Historically when people have been scared and nervous, there's been an uptick in science fantasy horror. You're telling allegorical tales and shining a light back on society.

Dawn Ostroff

Our strength is having high-quality hits that it would take another (new) network years to develop.

Chad Slyter

I think they are just wondering what we have to do to win these short run games. The difference, right now, is we're not getting hits with runners at second and third.

Emily Martin

Jamie is really pounding the ball. She's been getting big hits for us all season.

Terry Cornett

(Lang) had them at bay. Then they had two hits and scored them.

Jeff Messer

That's the way he was last year. He's not overpowering, but he hits his spots.

Dan Haren

I think our offense is even better than last year. Milton and Frank, I mean, look at the hits they had tonight. It's nice to see them in the lineup.

Joel Edgerton

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

Tim Chambers

He'll be able to go wherever he wants to go, if he keeps those hits up.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Jake Barton

From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it's actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics.

Bible Bible

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

Michael Dunne

People I know inside Chery say (it will happen) no sooner than 2008.

Peter Earnest

People historically have loved the inside story. It's about secrets. People love secrets.

Erik Raney

Our SWAT teams are going in there as if the suspect is still inside and we're taking every precaution of course.

Alex Laats

Our whole premise is you have to be able to search inside the audio.

Cassie Schrock

I was just looking to penetrate every time. My teammates kept looking for me inside and my shot was just falling.

Leon Powe

I was just having fun. We were here at Staples, so I wanted to come out hard. If I can get something going inside for my team, that sets them up on offense.

Lewis Witcher

I was kind of shocked they did that, but that's OK though. Let them come in. They're not going to get too much inside when I'm in there.

Jon Corzine

I think there are real problems inside the Patriot Act.

Eric Sims

Jeff played really well. It's tough to score on him. We just have got to do a better job inside the box.

Eric Dubin

Regardless of what she did for a living, Bonny loved her kids and her kids loved her,

Tony Arntson

Really what we are focussed on is getting better each week. The kids keep competing.

Joan Chen

Relatively speaking, I was a lot more naive than kids today.

Craig Pippen

Our players have stayed positive even though we haven't come up with some wins. There's been some negativity surrounding our program, and the kids haven't listened to it.

Mark Douglass

Our rebounding killed us. In all of our losses rebounding has been an issue. We must become a better rebounding team. We need kids to step up.

Kendy Hinkel

Parents will see differences in the way kids are talking about what they learn.

Jim Wiscombe

Part of it was fatigue. We didn't sub a lot and kids got tired. We didn't make plays we normally make.

Billy Donovan

Part of it is youthfulness, but the one thing about the kids is that they're in every game.

Bob Williams

Part of this river is the Native Americans and the people we took it from. These kids never had that as part of their experience, so why not throw that in?

Charles Kingsley

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

Benjamin Cardozo

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Bryant H. McGill

Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

Alex Newell

I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially the same person, even though one’s fiercer than the other—don’t tell her it’s me. I love Chris Colfer, he’s a gem. Melissa (Benoist) and Blake (Jenner), I love them. We’re such a tight-knight family because we spend so much time together.

David Baldacci

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

Dustin Diamond

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

Dan Brown

Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?" Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Josh Herring

That could have been a big turning point in the game. If we tie it there, we would have the momentum.

Hans Blix

that could be risky from the point of view of proliferation.

Robert Fitzgerald

Our selling point is, if you have to get through, it's Ricochet.

Randy Gumbley

Our strong point is that we'll be solid on the back end.

Claudio Piron

Overall, the long-term trend is going to worsen. All indicators are pointing to a possible recession.

Phil Condit

Overall, at this point I'm pretty positive, ... We've got things going in the right way. Now, we've got to go out and do it.

Rick Simon

Really, it's getting to a point where it's really serious now.

Olli Jokinen

We need points right now, and we can't keep throwing them away.

Ozzie Newsome

Right or wrong on this call, the system in place has worked and he trusts it, ... You can't stretch too much and still stick with your system.

Carrie Underwood

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

Emily Smith

That was awesome. It wasn't really a surprise. We always try to stick together, because that makes it better.

Joey Porter

I still stick to my word: that's not smash-mouth football. We play smash-mouth football.

Derek Jeter

He can play. He has an approach, and he sticks to it. He can pretty much do it all.

Seth MacFarlane

If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.

Ben Fountain

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Anthony Chan

More and more firms are sticking their toes in the water. The recovery's begun, but it will be fragile.

Dave Ramsey

When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

David Edwards

Spikes and stuff are what bog down the network,

Joey Cheek

Some of the stuff teams do is interpreted differently by different people.

Bill Sienkiewicz

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

Bhagat Singh

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

Ashley Tisdale

I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.

Bill Budge

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

Bill Budge

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

Bill Burr

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

Lynn Turner

That stuff isn't free. It has a cost.

Jonathan Zittrain

(With the DMCA) you have the sword of Damocles,

Rasim Ljajic

This threat hangs like a sword over our necks.

Tom Cech

It's kind of a double-edged sword for these farmers.

Jim Butcher

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

Graeme Souness

Stephen has had an operation. We could have him back in three weeks, but in the worst case, who knows?

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Gerald Cox

We never really put this one away. Two or three 3's, and we're in trouble.

Adam Dunn

That's a tough way to give up three runs,

Amy Walter

It is one thing if it is three weeks. Three months, that is another story.

Jim Hickey

I was worried that he wouldn't even make it through three innings.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

Oscar Goodman

If I'm up at three in the morning, there's no other place to go.